Rocket Raid 2314 & Bootcamp Win7

I have been trying to get an eSata card to work with my 2009 Mac Pro and its been nothing short of nerve racking.
I tired the Rocket 622 but that would not recognize PM (port multiplier) cases or boot to Windows 7. Highpoint assured me that they would upgrade the drivers but I can't wait. NewEgg has a 30 return policy. So I did some research and it looked like the RR2314 would work. I returned the 622 and ordered the 2314.
Out of the box it Kernel Panicked allot. I installed the drivers from the website and it stabilized in 10.6.2. All seemed good, until I tried to boot into Windows 7.
I hold option when booting, select Win7 partition (internal drive not on esata!), screen goes black, and nothing.
If anyone has any idea how to fix this please let me know. I am really tired of throwing money to get some type of eSata backup system and seeing it fail. (This has become like a 6 month nightmare. I got stuck with a bad case, etc...)
I have 11 more days to RMA this with NewEgg. I would rather see it work.

1. I updated using my aunts computer which I had because I was cleaning it up. It happened to have a PCIe slot. I updated the drivers and disabled all the fancy boot options but that did not work.
2.I do not recall a boot screen from the card. Weird. The computer booted normally while the card was installed. (To WinXP)
3. My original partitioning was: Apple Provided 650GB HD split to 500GM jHFS+ and 150GB NTFS. Windows XP CD would not boot while the card was installed. I didn't bother trying the Win7 CD. I have had absolutely NO problems with bootcamp when there is no eSATA card installed. The installs must be ok. I have installed XP, Vista, and later Win7 on this Mac Pro. All worked flawlessly this past year. I have booted many times into Win7 prior to installing the card. I did consider something funky with the boot sectors. I moved all my data off one of my 1.5TB internal volumes, reformatted, moved my OSX boot volume there via CCC, partitioned and formatted the 650GB internal as NTFS and gave Win7 the entire drive.
Something else is amiss here. I have checked the computer up and down and I seriously doubt there is an issue with the computer. I ended up sending the RR2314 back. My time for RMA was running out. I am thinking about getting the RR eSATA as that runs EFI and should (theoretically) be ignored by Win7 at boot. The only problem I have is that I am out $70 so far with restocking fees and shipping back to newegg. I am abit hesitant to order the RR eSATA because of this. It will cost me another $30 if it doesn't work. And there is no guarantee that it will be supported come 10.7.
Thank you for taking the time to help me. I really appreciate it. You gave me quite a few avenues to try when I though I had run out of ideas. The one thing I didn't try and I regret not finding this out till after I sent the card back was that the RR2314 and RReSATA both share the same chipset. There is a possibility that the RR2314 could be flashed with the RReSATA EFI. Again I didn't try this as I just found out last night after I returned the card.
I will keep this thread open in case I decide to try the RReSATA card. If I can help someone else and possibly save them money it would have made this nightmare worth it.
For anyone out there that does not need bootcamp support the Sii3132 card that comes with the TR4M
http://bit.ly/6k4jIg works beautifully with the Sonnet drivers found here http://bit.ly/3A8jJK
The drivers show you all the drives in the case but do not provide any type of RAID. For a cheap solution that works this is it. If however you try to boot into another OS it will not work. Also you will not have boot support to OSX from a drive connected to the eSATA. You will also not have access to your data if you need to boot from the OSX install DVD. (Unless you hack the DVD, which is not all that hard. Or install 10.6 to a USB drive and install the drivers to that.)

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